Thursday, July 24, 2014

State of Michigan attacks organic co-operative

While people in Detroit are living in third world conditions, where
the city has been shutting off water supplies to homes of people who
can't pay their utility bills ... but the state of Michigan decided that
a more important problem was an organic farm close to Detroit that has
been signing co-operative contracts, in which the co-op members share in
the production of their farm. Michigan says that the co-op contracts
are invalid, therefore the family that owns the farm (Joe and Brenda
Golimbieski) and the owner of the My Family Co-op (Jenny Samuelson) are
guilty of "selling food without a license." Oh, my goodness, what a
horrible thing!

So all that food had to be destroyed.

According to a post on the Hill High Dairy page on Facebook, the agents from the MDA stood over the family, watching as the food was destroyed.

100 dozen eggs. Each egg had to be broken. 248 gallons
dumped in a sprayer that had to be witnessed by the Michigan Department of Agriculture being dumped and
sprayed on the field.

It's
not an isolated incident ... all across the US and Canada, independent
farmers are being targeted like this ... farmers even being charged with
a crime for saving their own seed for replanting. It affect everyone.
Just like farmers aren't free to produce what they want, the way they
want it, consumers (and everyone is a farm consumer) aren't free to
choose what they buy and eat.

I read about this on The Organic Prepper, which is an excellent source for information on growing your own.